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#26

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:08pm

I think the only time I have actually teared up was in Light in the Piazza after Fabrizio's father calls off the wedding and they all leave. Clara doesn't understand what is happening and is asking why no one will even look at her. She just seems so innocent and lost, it's heartbreaking.
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#28

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:46pm

"You alone can make my song take flight... its over now! the Music of the night!"

"It's a far far better thing I do than I have ever done"

"I am the one who watched while you die"

"Will you join in our crusade, who will be strong and stand with me"

"A big, bright, beautfiul world... but not for me..."

"But It's not to be, IF i Can't love her... Let the world be done! With ME!"
#29

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:36pm

The gasp in SITPWG
New Music in Ragtime (When the cast came out on the fire escapes...literally took my breath away)
What Would You Do from Cabaret gets me every time too.
White, a blank page or canvas. His favorite - so many possibilities. F--- you, Ms. Johnson. Word.
#31

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:48pm

Generally I'll only do it at one performance and then I won't the next time, but basically half of Les Mis, the end of Phantom, and the scene where Angel dies in Rent always get me.

Other than those, though, I'm normally not one to cry at sad shows. I think being in a high school production of Carousel killed it for me. Billy would be onstage committing suicide and the rest of the cast would be in the wings quietly whispering and dancing. So now that's all I can really think of when a sad scene comes up - the chorus electric boogaloo-ing just offstage. LOL.
#33

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:59pm

"One Day More" in "Les Miserables" always breaks me.

Specifically, "A Little Priest" in the revival of "Sweeney Todd"... I was sobbing... I embarassed everyone I was with.

"Sunday in the Park with George": "Color & Light" when Jenna Russell and Daniel Evans sang "I could look at him/her forever."

I cried from "Ladies Who Lunch" through "Being Alive" at the revival of "Company."
#34

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:17pm

I have seen a lot of theatre but the one moment that stands out for me was seeing Charlotte D'Amboise do Music and the Mirror in the revival of A Chorus Line. As a dancer, I had heard of A Chorus Line in my younger days but only knew the opening number and "One" so I expected a fun,light show. I never expected to be so riveted by the emotional impact of the show. I completely lost it when she said "I'm putting myself on the line, I'm putting myself on your line". And later I lost it again when Zack says "If today were the day you had to stop dancing, how would you feel"
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#37

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 4:06pm

the crescendo during "I Still Believe" in Miss Saigon; and the final moments (actually the entire third act) of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."
#38

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 5:28pm

In the "On the Town" Revival NYC 1971. "Some Other Time", which was the only honest moment in a very over-glitzed and ill-directed (Ron Field) production. But suddenly it was really true...and I was young and impresssssionable. Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Ron Raines and....???? I forget
#40

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/11/09 at 6:31pm

The opening of The Lion King. The Circle of Life. 5 seconds into the show I am already crying. Something about that song and the beautiful opening.

A Little Fall of Rain--Les Mis.

The End of Miss Saigon.

When Anna explains to her son about the King's death.

When Jesus dies in JCS.

Etc.

I have so many it's ridiculous.
#45

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/12/09 at 7:58pm

For me it was "Everything I Know" from In The Heights. For what it's worth, it still makes me cry. The ending of Next To Normal made me tear up too the first time I saw it.
"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook
#47

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/12/09 at 10:31pm

The first time I saw Little Shop of Horrors (the recent national tour) I cried all through the 'Somewhere That's Green' reprise all through the scene where Seymour places Audrey in the plant.
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
#48

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/13/09 at 12:20am

The only time I can recall is at the very end of "Deuce" when Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes, as the two retired tennis players, take their final bow. The admirer character comes out and says, I'm paraphrasing, "Take a good look at these two women. Remember them as they are. You will never see their like again." I just bawled the first time, and last time, I saw it. Art imitating life. In fact, I took the back of my hand to my eyes just now.
2010

Feb. 28 - Looped, Feb. 28 - Next to Normal, March 4 - Hair, March 11 - A Little Night Music, March 24 - Time Stands Still, April 6 - La Cage Aux Folles, April 10 - Anyone Can Whistle (City Center), April 10 - Looped, May 9 - Enron, May 15 - A Little Night Music, May 15 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Little Night Music, June 20 - A Little Night Music, June 23 - Red, June 23 - Sondheim on Sondheim, July 13 - A Little Night Music, July 18 - The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center)

Updated On: 8/13/09 at 12:20 AM

#49

re: Moments in Shows that Made You Cry When You First Saw It

Posted: 8/13/09 at 8:29am

-I'll Cover You in Rent

-When Fantine and Eponine come to Val Jean in the Finale(But only with Lea Salonga and Megan McGinnis)

-For Good in Wicked(especially if someone is leaving), also I'm Not That Girl(it depends on who's singing it though)

-In Next To Normal from Why Stay all the way through to when the house lights come on(and most likely when I'm walking out of the theatre). I Am The One(reprise) is the one that makes me cry the most though.

-Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde

-Left Behind from Spring Awakening

I'm sure there's more but I can't think of them right now.
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

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